89 Life And Living Quotes

In the intricacies of daily life, we often find ourselves searching for meaning and motivation. Words have a remarkable power to inspire, comfort, and transform our perspectives. Quotes, in particular, encapsulate profound wisdom in just a few impactful words. In this carefully curated collection, we've gathered 89 of the most thought-provoking and uplifting life and living quotes. Whether you're seeking guidance, a touch of inspiration, or simply a moment to reflect, these quotes offer insight into the complexities and wonders of living. Journey with us through these poignant expressions, and rediscover the beauty and significance of the everyday moments that shape our existence.

1. “Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)” - René Descartes

2. “There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.” - C. JoyBell C.

3. “We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same. We are united by the reality that all colours and all cultures are distinct & individual. We are harmonious in the reality that we are all held to this earth by the same gravity. We don't share blood, but we share the air that keeps us alive. I will not blind myself and say that my black brother is not different from me. I will not blind myself and say that my brown sister is not different from me. But my black brother is he as much as I am me. But my brown sister is she as much as I am me.” - C. JoyBell C.

4. “Stories are a different kind of true.” - Emma Donoghue

5. “Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don't know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more.” - C. JoyBell C.

6. “I come across too much material on "how to make a man want you", "how to make a man commit", "how to make a man finally pop the question", "how to make a man take you seriously", "how to get into a man's emotions." And I laugh. My dear fellow women, enough! Do not busy yourselves with such things! Instead, fall in love with yourself!” - C. JoyBell C.

7. “Do you have a leather jacket? One for a ten-year-old boy?" I asked the man selling leather jackets and gloves in Covent Garden, London. "Yes, I have one right here!" And the man dug out a fine leather jacket that looked styled and tailored for a young boy. "I'm buying this for my son" I said to him. "I love this jacket, it's perfect, I think I will just come back for it tomorrow, though! I'll be back tomorrow, okay?" And the man reached his arms above his head, and said with a big smile upon his face "You only have one life to live! What is the difference if you do something today, or if you do it tomorrow?" I thought about the man's words. And I bought the jacket. He was right, there is no difference, really, between doing something today and doing something tomorrow, when you only have one life to live! Afterall, tomorrow may never come! All you really have is today!” - C. JoyBell C.

8. “What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.” - William Kent Krueger

9. “There is always a better option, than the option giving up.” - Omar Abbasi

10. “Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.” - David Levithan

11. “I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy, not in making others think or know that I am.” - C. JoyBell C.

12. “و بى أملٌيأتى ويذهب ، لكن لن أُوَدعه” - محمود درويش

13. “Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.” - Paulo Coelho

14. “The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.” - C. JoyBell C.

15. “And I told him, I said: "One day you're going to miss the subway because it's not going to come. One of these days, it's going to break down and it's not going to come around and everyone else will just wait for the next one or will take the bus, or walk, or run to the next station: they will go on with their lives. And you're not going to be able to go on with your life! You'll be standing there, in the subway station, staring at the tube. Why? Because you think that everything has to happen perfectly and on time and when you think it's going to happen! Well guess what! That's not how things happen! And you'll be the only one who's not going to be able to go on with life, just because your subway broke down. So you know what, you've got to let go, you've got to know that things don't happen the way you think they're going to happen, but that's okay, because there's always the bus, there's always the next station...you can always take a cab.” - C. JoyBell C.

16. “One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. Its a good thing!” - C. JoyBell C.

17. “You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you.” - David Nicholls

18. “Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.” - C. JoyBell C.

19. “We are not strangers in this journey of life…We are connected to each other through this mysterious field of love.” - Banani Ray

20. “I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.” - C. JoyBell C.

21. “Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.” - C. JoyBell C.

22. “Taking on too much of other people's drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life.” - José N. Harris

23. “When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways I have limited myself, my whole life, by "waiting" for people. And the only thing that I've ever received in return is people thinking that they are faster than me, people thinking that they can make me feel bad about myself just because I let them and people thinking that I have to do whatever they say I should do. My mother used to teach me "Cinderella is a perfect example to be" but I have learned that Cinderella can go fuck herself, I'm not waiting for anybody, anymore! I'm going to run as fast as I can, fly as high as I can, I am going to soar and if you want you can come with me! But I'm not waiting for you anymore.” - C. JoyBell C.

24. “If I could catch a Star and hold it in my hand. I would illuminate those whose life is not so grand.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

25. “Everyone should have a form of a diary it’s a great release Most people’s Diaries are called "My Diary" Mines called "Conversations with Me".” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

26. “Watch an Ant, Watch the bees, feel wind move the leaves. Touch your smile above your chin from the glorious world we all live in.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

27. “You ever wake up in the morning and kiss the mirror and say "HELLO BEAUTIFUL" if not you have the wrong connection with your reflection.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

28. “Isn't it a shame that some people's 'weaknesses' can be so strong.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

29. “If you want to find missing children put their photo's on Soda Cans, beer cans and cigarette packs and you'll increase the odds by millions some people are lactose in tolerate.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

30. “For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race.” - C. JoyBell C.

31. “This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.” - Diane Keaton

32. “When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life.” - Laura Teresa Marquez

33. “When Juliet came flying down the hallway, Stella didn't recognize her friend. Juliet hadn't bothered with makeup; she was wearing a nightgown underneath her raincoat and had on plastic flip-flops. This was the way loved walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed.” - Alice Hoffman

34. “Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul.” - Gianna Perada

35. “People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the tip of my nose begins. Your opinions of others can only go so far as to where their own shoreline is. The world is for your taking, but other people are not. One is only allowed to have an opinion of me, if that person is done educating him/herself on everything about me. Before people educate themselves on everything about you, they're not allowed to open their venomous mouthes and have an opinion about you.” - C. JoyBell C.

36. “I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.” - Steve Martin

37. “People ask without wanting to know.” - Barbara Kingsolver

38. “Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully” - Kate Spade

39. “Life is a wall, you have to climb it by pushing others to climb over and you will be pushed as well. Give a helping hand today.” - Bernard Kelvin Clive

40. “Life’s not a one-shot special. It’s a friggin’ on-going series. Live it!” - Arnold Arre

41. “I think that, people are people. That's why the way I treat the lady working in the deli who slices my ham is the same way I treat my friend who drives a Chrysler. That's why the way I treat the guy who packs my groceries is the same way I treat my rich friends. Because people are people. Some are rich and some are poor, and they're all people.” - C. JoyBell C.

42. “And I would have answered:"The knottier the branch, the more twisted and misshapen, the more bent people called it, the harder it is to find it a place among the smooth planks, the more people agree that it should be thrown on the fire, the more useless it is, the more unsuitable for anything except letting one's imagination run riot, the more I covet it, the more I yearn to weigh it in my hand, the more I long to let my whittling knife be guided by its knots and veins...Yes, bring that piece to me...” - Sjón

43. “Nothing is but what is now” - Ron Rash

44. “These days, I've been trying to classify my thoughts into two categories: "Things I can change," and "Things I can't." It seems to help me sort through what to really stress about. But there I go again, over-planning and over-organizing my over-thinking! I write songs about my adventures and misadventures, most of which concern love. Love is a tricky business. But if it wasn't, I wouldn't be so enthralled with it. Lately I've come to a wonderful realization that makes me even more fascinated by it: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does! There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course. I can't plan for it. I can't predict how it'll end up. Because love is unpredictable and it's frustrating and it's tragic and it's beautiful. And even though there's no way to feel like I'm an expert at it, it's worth writing songs about -- more than anything else I've ever experienced in my life.” - Taylor Swift

45. “Many times, you are the single most significant and glorious thing that has ever happened in the lives of some people; they sit around and talk about you over and over again throughout the years while you are out there living your life, every step that you take and every kiss that you make having absolutely nothing to do with them, at all!” - C. JoyBell C.

46. “Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something to that someone/ to those people. May nothing that you do be done with any thought of them in mind. There is nothing that needs to be proven.” - C. JoyBell C.

47. “Our lives are businesses that are sometimes run by idiots.” - Patrick Reinken

48. “I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life. And so how can I ever say that I am alone?” - C. JoyBell C.

49. “If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs.” - C. JoyBell C.

50. “You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.” - Jim Rohn

51. “I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.” - Ann Voskamp

52. “If you treat an animal right, they don't run away. They're not like us. They run away from people they don't trust; most times we run away from ourselves.” - Glenn Beck

53. “It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.” - Dinaw Mengestu

54. “Like attracts like. It'll surprise you as long as you live. Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.” - Richard Bach

55. “But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what they do. You just have to accept a little mystery, Ben. People are mysterious, the world is mysterious. You can't know everything. You're not supposed to. This isn't a history book. It's just the world. It's a messy place.” - William Landay

56. “In order for us to begin something we have to start.” - Zulima James

57. “We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.” - Isaac Marion

58. “Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.” - Sarah Addison Allen

59. “Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.” - Nalini Singh

60. “Zadane su nam ulice, mjesta i padovi. Usponi katkad ovise o našoj izdržljivosti.” - Jasna Horvat

61. “...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?” - Isaac Marion

62. “There are two types of people on planet Earth, Batman and Iron Man. Batman has a secret identity, right? So Bruce Wayne has to walk around every second of every day knowing that if somebody finds out his secret, his family is dead, his friends are dead, everyone he loves gets tortured to death by costumed supervillains. And he has to live with the weight of that secret every day. But not Tony Stark, he's open about who he is. He tells the world he's Iron Man, he doesn't give a shit. He doesn't have that shadow hanging over him, he doesn't have to spend energy building up those walls of lies around himself. You're one or the other - either you're one of those people who has to hide your real self because it would ruin you if it came out, because of your secret fetishes or addictions or crimes, or you're not one of those people. And the two groups aren't even living in the same universe.” - David Wong

63. “No, I stay for myself. Everything I need, everything I want, is here. I know it's not enough for most people, but it is for me. Every time I leave, even for an afternoon or an overnight trip to Seattle, I can't wait to get back. This is home. And I guess I'm a person who needs a home, a place to plant seeds and watch them grow.” - Barbara Freethy

64. “Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others-and I am one of those-never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go.” - Yann Martel

65. “... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.” - Ruth Harris

66. “Intendo dire”, disse Alice, “che uno non può fare a meno di crescere.”“Uno forse non può”, disse Humpty Dumpty, “ma due possono. Con un aiuto adeguato, avresti potuto fermarti a sette anni.” - Lewis Carroll

67. “if you don't have any weird moments, you're weird” - bertie gilbert

68. “If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost.” - Brian MacLearn

69. “People don’t always value life, even their own, as much as they should.” - Alex Potvin

70. “...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

71. “What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

72. “If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must simultaneously proceed at full steam. One is to deal with and live in the present world. The other is to re-experience and mourn something that happened long ago. It is as though her lightness pulls her toward heaven, but the extra gravity around her keeps her earthbound.” - Steve Martin

73. “I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing” - Jonathan Tropper

74. “Some people believe that to find happiness, you should live each day of your life as if it's your last because that way you will appreciate every single moment you have. Other people believe that you should live each day as if it's your first because then every day can be the beginning of a new journey.” - Ellen DeGeneres

75. “It is an extremely unfortunate fact, that there are those who see the morale of respect as something that is beneficial to the other person on the receiving end, rather than something that is beneficial to the one who is capable of giving the respect! Because that's simply not how it works; the person who is capable of discerning respect and giving it to others, is the person who is better! There are people who believe that the virtue of respect and the ability to discern when to give respect and in which amounts to give it, belongs to the lower class! Oh I beg, I beg to differ! No. And no and no! If I am able to discern the amounts of respect to be given so that I may function as a beaming member of society, this virtue illuminates ME; this virtue does not illuminate those whom I give the respect to! Respect is known by the illuminated being!s” - C. JoyBell C.

76. “...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...” - John Geddes

77. “What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission made up. It’s up to you to make your life. Take what you have and stack it up like a tower of teetering blocks. Build your dream around that.” - Cheryl Strayed

78. “Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I'm trying to do here, clear a space in all the debris, through all the anxieties and worries, where I can just exist, easily and simply, entire, for as long as I have left.” - Helen Humphreys

79. “...once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal.” - Josh Kilmer-Purcell

80. “Erlendur didn’t believe in premonitions, visions or dreams, nor reincarnation or karma, he didn’t believe in God although he’d often read the Bible, nor in eternal life or that his conduct in this world would affect whether he went to heaven or hell. He felt that life itself offered a mixture of the two.Then sometimes he experienced this incomprehensible and supernatural de´ja` -vu, experienced time and place as if he’d seen it all before, as if he stepped outside himself, became an onlooker to his own life. There was no way he could explain what it was thathappened or why his mind played tricks on him like this.” - Arnaldur Indriðason

81. “Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant.” - Kahlil Gibran

82. “Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly a coolness surrounds you and you need not be false because there is no other human being to be false to. You fall together.” - Osho

83. “Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.” - Viktor E. Frankl

84. “Life isn't about wasting. its to live!” - Mandeep Lakhan

85. “O te consagras a vivir o te dedicas a morir.” - Stephen King

86. “Life is to short to worry about everything.” - Radostin Chernev

87. “Do you think it will always be this way?”“What?”“I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?”I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. “I don't know,” I said. “Tomorrow.” - Benjamin Alire Saenz

88. “Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.” - Rose Wilder Lane

89. “What happens to those who live dangerously by being true to who they are?” - Bryant McGill